diff --git a/python/word-count/word_count.py b/python/word-count/word_count.py
index af5bf6f..d0bdbdc 100644
--- a/python/word-count/word_count.py
+++ b/python/word-count/word_count.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 def count_words(input_sentence):
     sentence = input_sentence.lower()
+    sentence = ' '.join(filter(str.isalnum, sentence))
+    # for character in blocked_characters:
+    #     sentence = sentence.replace(character, " ")
     words = sentence.split()
     result = {}
     for word in words:
-        counter = 0
-        if word in words:
-            counter += 1
-        result[word] = counter
+        result[word] = words.count(word)
 
     return result